My two contributor copies of Brutarian #53 arrived today with my story "The Collection Plate" in it. As I've said, Brutarian certainly is a mysterious zine, as it's sold primarily in music stores. A few of us sub to them, but no one I know has actually seen a copy of the magazine. Now I have proof that Brutarian does in fact exist!

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Tonight is the 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly's death. I was only one when it happened, so I don't remember, of course. But I was living in Lubbock, Texas at the time. Buddy and I share the same home town, which is where this statue of him is today!

Also, my SF horror piece, "Facing Myself," is now live at Fear and Trembling.


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My homoerotic, gay-biker time-travel tale is now live at Forbidden Fruit. Thanks goes out to beta readers ( Read more... )

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If you've been cruising the Internet looking for a somewhat alternate-history, somewhat mainstream piece about teens who are better read in the classics than adults but still curse like Sinbad the Sailor, then go no further. My flash piece, "Class War," is now online at Written Word.

"Class War"


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Though I haven't gotten my copy yet, issue #3: "Sex in the Time of VHS" of Polutto: The Anti-Pop Culture Journal is out. As the cover asks, I didn't know I had anything in common with Jeff VanderMeer, except that we're both on the cover. Well, I like his writing an awfully lot and I'm sure he does too. So, that's two things, I guess. I'm afraid to ( Read more... )

My story “Kickball” is up at Mindflights. Like a lot of my fiction, it’s short, 1200 words. So if you ever wanted to read a secondary-world fantasy where a wizard’s severed head is being used as a kickball around the theme of illegal-drug use in a modern-day ghetto, here’s your chance.

“Kickball”

My review of Dog Versus Sandwich is now live at The Fix.

And my dark, period fantasy “Sequestering Evil” is live at Niteblade.